Shares in Switzerland’s biggest bank UBS rallied on Thursday as Marcel Rohner announced his resignation, just weeks after announcing losses of nearly $17 billion — the largest ever by a Swiss group. Rohner is replaced by Oswald Gruebel, who served as CEO of rival Credit Suisse from 2003 until 2007. “With his previous employer Credit Suisse, Mr
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UK woman loses assisted suicide appeal
A British woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis has lost her appeal to clarify Britain’s laws on assisted suicide, a charity working with the woman said Thursday. But the woman did get a strong hint that anyone who helped her travel to a country where assisted suicide is legal would not be prosecuted.
Five places to go before global warming messes them up
Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place